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by adnrw
4482 days ago
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I found this really helpful insofar as grasping orders of magnitude of big numbers: 1 thousand seconds is 16.7 minutes
1 million seconds is 11.6 days
1 billion seconds is 31.6 years In my mind the difference between a million and a billion seemed somewhat tangible before hearing this. With that comparison, a billion seems so much more. |
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Another way to think about these scaling ratios is to realize that a billion is a thousand times larger than a million.
Billion = 10^9
Million = 10^6
9 - 6 = 3. 10^3 = 1000